TSA takes on grandma:- Son of 90yo says agency forced her to remove shirt, bra during security check

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RT 2015-10-29

Grandma got run over by the Transportation Security
Administration flying home from Portland, Oregon: Her son says that she
was forced to take off her blouse and bra after triggering body
scanners. The TSA denies the charge.

Harriette Charney had just
wrapped up a two-week trip to visit her son, and was flying back to the
East Coast from Portland International Airport when the extra money she
had been carrying in a secret pocket in her bra set off the full body
scanner at the TSA checkpoint.

When the alarm went off, TSA agents promptly pulled Charney aside to further inspect her.“It was obvious they were going in to a search,” son Alan Charney told KATU. “But I presumed they were just going to sort of pat her down.”

- Instead,
the 90-year-old woman was taken into a separate room.

- And that’s where
she was told to take her clothes off from the waist up, according to Mr.
Charney.

"They wanted her to take, I guess, take all of her clothes off from her waist up," he said, "and so she took off that and took off her bra... and I'm like 'what??!!'"

Ms.
Charney had sewn a pocket into her bra, where she was carrying a couple
of extra dollars, which she had been keeping in case her wallet was
lost or stolen, she said.

While her son agreed with the need to search his mother after she set off the scanner, he believed the TSA agents went too far.

"There was no sanity or sensitivity at all to the work that they were doing," Mr. Charney said.

The
TSA told KATU it is investigating the incident, but said the case was
unusual. Typical procedures call for agents to have simply asked Ms.
Charney to lift her shirt for closer inspection and patted her down,
adding that asking a person to completely remove clothing is not normal.

However, on Thursday, the agency denied that Ms. Charney was asked to strip.

“Preliminary
findings indicate that at no time during the screening process did the
passenger remove her clothing nor was she requested to. In fact, when
the passenger, of her own volition, began to disrobe, she was
immediately stopped by the TSA officer conducting the screening,” an agency spokesman told the Washington Times.Läs mer: https://www.rt.com/usa/320095-tsa-grandma-strip-bra/